Gaming’s Whacked-Out Week: September 14

A cynical advertising endeavor to galavanize further monies from the groin-grabbingly anticipated Resident Evil 6, this is not. (Rather, it IS, yet we’ll concede: CRAP IN OUR GRANDMOTHER’S MOUTH, this is a preposterously theatrical, quasi-arousing sight. A section of Universal Studios Japan has metamorphosed into Raccoon City, for Halloween-infused business of some nature or other. Via an amalgamation of ACTUAL ARCANE SORCERY, human zombie-actors and the canny projection of scenes from the games, this resembles Nerdvana. Those was a penchant for the franchise would be advised to exchange the nickels in their pissed uncle John’s swear jar (they day he attempted to assemble the flat-pack wardrobe, we were able to add another floor to the house) for airline tickets to the Orient, post-haste.